George elliott



BATH.

Patented June 27, 1893 'me nunms Pneus no. vno'rouruo., WASHINGTON. u. c.

U NiTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE ELLIOTT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BATH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 500,479, dated June 27, 1893.

Application iiled February 15 1.893. Serial No. 462,511. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE ELLIOTT, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Baths, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention is an improvement in that class of portable cabinet baths in which a pump is located in a well, or water-holding receptacle, at the bottom, and is operated by the occupant of the bath to force water into spray pipes arranged inthe upper portion of the bath.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specication, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a front elevation of the bath, the door being open and in vertical section, and a portion of the casing and the tube being likewise in section. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken .essentially on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is ahorizontal section taken practically on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

The body of the bath consists of a casing A, which may be of any desired shape, but preferably it is square or polygonal in cross section. The top of the casing may be open or closed; ordinarily, however, it is open, and in one side of the casing an opening 10, is made, adapted to be closed by'adoor 11 hung upon the casing. The door is provided upon its inner face near its margin, especially at the sides and at the bottom, with flanges 12, which when the door is closed will extend over the bottom and sides of the opening 10, and act as shields to prevent the water from finding an exit at these points when the bath is in operation. Ordinarily thelower flange, or that at the bottom of the door, is much deeper than the side flanges, and an upper flange may be dispensed with if found desirable. As an additional safe-guard, gutters 13, may be formed at each side of the door opening, extending from a point above the opening to a point below it, thus providing for the exit of any water that may strike the front of the casing from 'spray tubes located at the sides.

At the back of the bath casing, in the bottom thereof, a depression or well 14, is constructed, and this well is provided with. an outlet pipe l5 and a water inlet pipe 16. Vithin this well two suction pumps B and B', are located, adapted when operated to draw upthe water from the well, and these two suction pumps have located between them a dome B2, the dome being connected by pipes 17, with the two suction pumps, as shown best in Figs. 1 and 2. The dome has usually connected with its upper end a exible tube 18, the said tube being provided with a valve 19, whereby communication between it and the dome may be established or cutoff as desired. The tube 1S, carries at its free end a rose 2O of any approved construction; but if in practice it is found desirable a rigid pipe may be connected with the dome instead of a liexible one.

About mid-way between the ltop and the bottom of the casing, at the back thereof, a supply pipe 21, is transversely located and supported; and this supply pipe, although it may be made of any desired cross sectional shape, is preferably made rectangular, and the supply pipe 2l, is connected with the dome B2 by side pipes 22 and 23, and one or both of the side pipes may have connected with them lengths of iiexible hose 24, provided at their ends with a rose 25, or other form of sprinkler. A stand pipe 26, is projected upward from each end of the supply pipe 2l, the stand pipes being located preferably at the junction of the sides with the back of the casing; and these stand pipes maybe carried upward to the top of the casing, at which point they are capped or otherwise closed. Each supply pipe is provided with a series of horizontal branch pipes 27, extending along the sides of the casing at intervals from the `top to the supply pipe. Each stand pipe at its lower end is provided with a Valve 28, and the flexible tube 24, connected with the service pipe 22 uniting the supply pipe with the dome, is also provided with a valve, designated in the drawings as 29. The side or branch pipes 27,are provided with a series of IOO apertures 30 in their inner faces, through which the water is adapted to be forced in the form of spray or minute streams; and if in practice it is found desirable the stand pipes 26, may likewise be apertured,but preferably they are not.

In addition to the side pipes and the stand' pipes another pipe 31, is connected with the supply pipe 21, preferably at the center of the latter; and the pipe 31, is carried upward or` dinarily above the upper end of the casing, beingattached to the upper end of the casing by a staple 32, or like device; and the upper portion of the pipe is curved forwardly and `crun1ed in a suitable bracket 38, attached to the supply pipe at its center, as shown in Fig.v 2. Thus by oscillating the lever thepumps are set in operation and water is forced into the dome, from the dome into the supply pipe, and'from the supply pipe to whatever pipes are in connection with it and having their valves opened; and the lever may be operated trom the exterior of the bath by attaching to its handle portion a link 39, which is preferably carried outward through a suitable opening made in one side of the casing.

In order that the bath may be readily transported and set up, its casing is made in two or more sections, preferably in two sections,

as illustrated, and when made in two sections the sections connect above the supply pipe 21. The sections are united by any approved form of water-tight connection. rlhe door upon its inner side is provided with a suitable latch 40, as shown in Fig. 3.

In operation, the well 111, is first filled with water, and if desired more water may be placed in the bath than the well can contain, and the person desiring to take the bath, after entering the casing, closing the door and lock ing it in place, may establish communication between the dome B2 and any set of pipes desired, or all of the pipes contained yWithin the casing; and by operating the lever 37 the pumps will draw up the water from the well, force it into the dome, and from the dome to the various open pipes, and the operator will obtain a spray from the top of the bath casing and a cross spray from the sides, and by shifting his position the operator will be enabled to bring the spray to bear upon anydesired portion of the body. Those portions of the body not reached by thc spray from the upper set of pipes may be reached through the medium of the flexible pipes 18 and 24.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In a portable cabinet bath, the combination, with the casing having a well, pumps located in the latter, and water-conducting and spray pipes connected with said pumps, of the oscillatory pump lever, 37, arranged in a vertical plane, and a rod, 39, attached to said lever and extending horizontally through a lateral opening in the casing, as and for the purpose specified.

GEORGE ELLIOTT. Witnesses:

vHoRA'rIo S. RUBENS, PIERRE JANSSEN. 

